Overwhelming. That's a very good word to describe the early steps of wedding planning for me, and probably Joshua. Several questions were asked, but all we could say was "I don't know." Frustrating for those who asked the questions, but we never really considered how our wedding would look color wise, what flowers I want, what types of dresses I liked for me and my bridesmaids... All we knew was that we wanted a beach wedding.
After some initial drama (caused some unneeded tears, but hey, weddings bring out the best and worst of people), I went online to look up a wedding planning check list. I came across The Knot, a wedding planning website. It has everything you need: concepts, a checklist (with a schedule), a timer until the big day... It even lets you host a free wedding website. Joshua and my website is here. I've edited some of the HTML on a couple of pages, simply on the post part, to give more of a personal touch, like the proposal point of view. I suggest everyone who plans on getting married bookmark The Knot. It is awesome, and I'm not even that big on girly stuff.
I've already written down phone numbers for photographers, reception hall venues, D.J.s, wedding cakes... Besides the photographer, everything written down is for the reception. Because we're having a small destination wedding, the reception will be bigger and have more things, like the actual wedding cake. We may have a cheap cake in Pismo, but I want to share the cutting experience with everyone, not just a handful of people.
On a different note, in the next week, Joshua goes in to talk to his recruiter to confirm when he ships out to BMT. If all goes well, he goes to BMT on February 26th, gets done at the end of April, and gets around a 2-month training for a job, getting done with tech training around June or July. The wedding hopefully will be August 5th. If anything changes, I'll let everyone know, but we won't know for sure until the third week into Joshua's BMT. So that's what's up right now. A whole lot of "I don't know."
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